Advanced Practice Provider, NP or PA-C, Cardiology Heart Failure, Park Ridge

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation•Park Ridge, IL

22h•Onsite

About The Position

Advocate Health is hiring a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA-C) for the Heart Failure Service at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois. The position combines inpatient and outpatient heart failure care, with approximately 50% of the role in the outpatient Heart Failure Clinic and 50% on the inpatient service. The schedule is four 10-hour shifts per week, including one Saturday hospital-rounding shift every eight weeks. There are no overnight responsibilities. In the outpatient clinic, the APP manages patients recently discharged after heart failure hospitalization, conducts evaluations, manages medications, provides education, and monitors patients. In the hospital, the APP partners with Heart Failure physicians on new consults and takes primary APP management responsibility for hospitalized patients after the initial consultation. The role coordinates treatment, medication titration, diagnostic interpretation, discharge planning, and care transitions, while supporting continuity among patients, families, consulting teams, and outpatient providers. The APP practices within scope and as part of an interdisciplinary team. Responsibilities include assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning; ordering, performing, and interpreting diagnostic studies; prescribing interventions and therapies; patient and family counseling; documentation and compliant billing; and coordination with healthcare team members. The role also contributes to quality and safety activities, education and onboarding, professional development, and productivity and quality standards. The position requires a master’s degree in nursing, active nursing and advanced practice licenses, national board certification in the clinical practice area and populations served, and an active DEA registration before hire. For practice in Illinois, an active Illinois Controlled Substance License is required before hire. BLS and/or ACLS, PALS, or NRP certification is required as applicable to the clinical practice, before hire or within six months of hire. No prior experience is required.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Nursing.
Active RN and APRN/APRN-FPA/APNP or other applicable advanced practice license(s) in the state(s) of practice.
Active national board certification in the area of clinical practice and populations served.
Active DEA registration before hire.
For Illinois practice, an active Illinois Controlled Substance License before hire.
Active BLS and/or ACLS, PALS, or NRP certification as required by clinical practice, before hire or within six months of hire.
Demonstrated high level of clinical proficiency and excellent decision-making skills.
Ability to work independently and effectively as a member of a healthcare team.
Ability to adapt to evolving technology and proficiency with the electronic medical record.
Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate and build relationships.
Organizational skills and ability to prioritize effectively.
Ability to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide age-appropriate patient care and to assess and interpret age-specific patient needs.
Ability to stand, walk, bend, stoop, and twist continuously throughout the workday; functional speech, vision, touch, and hearing; lift up to 50 lbs from floor to waist and 20 lbs overhead; carry up to 40 lbs a reasonable distance; and operate required equipment.

Responsibilities

Manage recently discharged heart failure patients in the outpatient clinic to support care transitions and reduce readmissions.
Conduct comprehensive evaluations, manage medications, educate patients, and monitor outpatient heart failure patients.
Partner with Heart Failure physicians to evaluate and round on new inpatient heart failure consults.
Assume primary APP management responsibilities for hospitalized heart failure patients after initial consultation.
Coordinate inpatient treatment planning, medication titration, diagnostic interpretation, discharge planning, and care transitions.
Coordinate communication and continuity of care among patients, families, consulting teams, and outpatient providers.
Assess, diagnose, and determine or alter treatment and management plans based on patient age, acuity, and clinical condition.
Order, perform, and interpret diagnostic studies and prescribe pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions and therapies.
Provide health promotion, disease prevention, and disease management counseling and education to patients and families.
Manage patients within scope of practice and as part of an interdisciplinary team; consult or refer to other healthcare professionals and escalate care when appropriate.
Maintain accurate, complete, concise, and timely electronic medical record documentation and submit professional services using compliant coding and billing practices.
Perform office or hospital procedures consistent with specialty practice, competency, and granted privileges, where applicable.
Participate in quality, safety, peer review, performance activities, meetings, committees, and workgroups as needed.
Participate in education and onboarding of new team members, students, and other healthcare professionals.
Maintain and develop clinical and professional skills and support the profession within and outside the organization.
Meet productivity, access, face-to-face time, and quality standards for safe and timely care.